Detectives have questioned a man in connection with a double-homicide in La Verne but said there were some major differences between the man and suspect sketch, including height and weight dissimilarities.

Charges were dropped today against a man who was awaiting trial for the fatal stabbings of his mother and brother in Yorba Linda, with prosecutors saying new evidence in the slayings points instead to a former Marine who is already charged with the killings of four homeless men in Orange County.